Marcos Placona's Blog

A measured audit of local coding-agent startup context: tool definitions, prefix caching, response reserve and the 9,700 tokens I recovered.

How a small OpenAI-compatible router lets one 48GB M4 Pro Mac mini safely serve several otherwise mutually exclusive local models.

Learn how to boost your website's Domain Rating (DR) with Cloudflare Workers by setting up 301 redirects and controlling Googlebot for better SEO performance.

How to deal with android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException in modern Android applications

Below is my series proposal for fixing the problem of too many sources of information and advocating modern Android Development one gist at a time.

In this post you will learn how to build a video recording application in Android using CameraX

This post highlights the benefits of using Android Jetpack and the Lifecycles components to guarantee integrity of your view's data

This post will take you through the steps of using environment variables from within you Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac

I don't think I know a single Android developer who's not stoked about Reactive Programming with RxAndroid right now.

I love using Square's Picasso library whenever I need to load images into my Android applications.

I took it upon myself to converting a couple of my domains to use Let's Encrypt in order to offer a secure connection to them.

I’ve seen this question being asked on StackOverflow so many times I event thought about writing a bot to automatically reply to it.

So the time has come for me to move on and accept a new challenge.

Modulecounts came to my attention, and I thought the idea was pretty neat.

How to send and receive SMS messages in Dart using the Twilio API, with a small open-source library that wraps the REST calls for you.

This is a very simple example of how to create files with Dart.

I wrote a little article about how to retrieve gists from GitHub, and +Seth Ladd quite rightly pointed something out.

In this post I will show you how to retrieve GitHub gists with Dart Language

Varnish is wicked!

In this article, I will demonstrate how easy it is to create a simple TCP HTTP server with Dart.

After my last example showing you how to create a matrix effect with Dart, I thought it would be cool, to follow up with another example that used the…

After my last post on Dart, I decided that I wanted to write something a bit more complex using the language.

A few weeks ago, I went to a Google sponsored event called Dart Flight School.

How to install and register new TeamCity build agents the right way, avoiding the manual setup that breaks when you migrate CI servers.

I've created a new website over the last weekend and would like to share it here with you.

I could end this post here, and people would have been satisfied to read it.

So I had this idea for a little application and wanted to get the UK's Top40 singles to use in it.

No catches here, all you need to do to get a free e-copy of my new book

So, I decided to take a punt at writing a NodeJS application.

A few months ago I was contacted by Packt Publishing about a new project they had in mind and thought I'd be a good fit for.

It's no secret that on the UNIX world, dotfiles play a very important part when it comes to making your terminal look good.

I've got a pro license of Visual Studio 2012, and decided to install it instead of my existing VS 2010 Express install.

So you’ve created your super polished android application and added a navigation menu to it, so your users can go from a place to another in your…

At work, we use Apache JMeter for load testing applications or API's we build.

Disclaimer: This blog post is not meant to be timeless, meaning it will lose its relevancy as soon as the stuff I'll mention below gets updated.

I've been asked to come up with an image slider prototype for something new we were doing at work.

At work, we've decided to start using enterprise queuing applications for ease of communication between our ColdFusion and .Net projects.

I was recently working on a .Net project that uses Castle as it's IoC Container.

So I believe by my last posts here you may have guessed I've been doing lots of mobile development in the last few months.

Here's is something that got me scratching my head for a little while today while working on my new mobile application.

This is just a quick example of how to add a background colour to a label control in AS3.

As some of you might have noticed, I have been building some mobile applications lately on my spare time specifically for the Blackberry Playbook .

I'm building a new Blackberry Playbook app, and when starting to work with internationalization, I got stuck with a bug that wouldn't go away.

As previously mentioned on my other post, I'm working on improving usability and user experience within one of our applications.

I found this two function yesterday while working on one of our applications.

I've run some updates on my server today, and got prompted to upgrade mySQL.

I jumped into the Android bandwagon about two months ago, and so far I can't cease to be impressed.

Moving a folder in Subversion is not a drag and drop job.

I've had my virtual machine (the one I use for development) rebuilt today, and to minimize overhead, we simply cloned a VM that had the desired settings.

How to get a PCI RS232 serial port card recognised and working on Ubuntu Linux, including the kernel modules and device permissions you need.